Adobe Photoshop

Image retouching is an essential component of the work of photographers, graphic designers, or communicators. It ensures the distribution of multimedia files and digital assets.

It focuses both on masking elements to respect image rights and on visual enhancements.
The installation of the Ephoto Dam plugin for Adobe Photoshop opens new perspectives for Digital Asset Management (DAM) users:

• Facilitated media search, helping to find prepared or shared selections directly in Photoshop,
• Ease of use, the media to be retouched only needs to be dragged into the workspace before making edits,
• Direct integration of the retouched media into Ephoto Dam, as a new version of the previous media, which is also preserved.

Thanks to versioning, you then determine which version of the media is current, the retouched or raw version.

Adobe Illustrator

The graphic charter and the elements that compose it (pictograms, logos, design systems, etc.) are among the most common items in the document repositories managed by Ephoto Dam.

These elements are necessary for graphic content creators (images, photos, videos) through which they can structure or embellish their creations or even create new digital resources.

In this context, the Ephoto Dam plugin for Illustrator integrates as an extension of the tool to facilitate access to these contents. The creator no longer has to leave Illustrator to find graphic elements and can search for them directly through the integrated search engine or use selections prepared in advance. Similarly to Photoshop, once their document is finished, they can choose to push their creation to Ephoto Dam as a version or original document.

This plugin can also be installed at your graphic service provider, who will be pleased to find media selections and graphic elements directly in their usual tool.

Adobe InDesign

InDesign is the reference tool for all graphic content creators—posters, brochures, magazines, stands, totems, etc. To benefit from the power of your digital media library within the tool, simply install the Ephoto Dam plugin for Adobe InDesign.

Thus, users can search for and select the media to integrate into their document without leaving InDesign and can be sure that they are properly managed (especially in terms of rights) through Ephoto Dam.

The producers of your graphic materials, whether internal or external service providers, now have direct access to the media you’ve prepared for them through selections or by accessing the collections they are authorized to use. Since a media item may be modified during the graphic creation process (retouching, changes, cropping, etc.), its usual version may change in Ephoto. In this case, your InDesign document will automatically update with the new version of the media thanks to the plugin. This ensures that the document remains up to date, reflecting the evolution of the media it contains.

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Lightroom is a favorite tool for many photographers who use it to organize their photos and apply graphic treatments to their images.

To optimize the media lifecycle steps, the Ephoto Dam plugin for Lightroom allows photographers to directly export their shots from Lightroom to Ephoto Dam.

This way, they do not leave their tool to deliver media into the DAM solution and no longer need to use digital or physical systems to transfer data. This facilitates change management and simplifies media collection for the organization employing the photographer.

Additionally, metadata, via pre-configured mapping, are automatically transferred into your indexing repository in Ephoto Dam. You then retrieve the pre-indexed media and can complete and publish them.